Aaron Harang News

It was a rough start to the week for some fantasy baseball pitching staffs. If you need to bounce back and lower your ERA while picking up W's and K's and improving your WHIP, there are plenty of options available in most leagues headed for the hill tonight.

While the Los Angeles Dodgers own the best record in baseball, another unfortunate off-the-field incident has recently overshadowed their continued stellar play.

Aaron Harang allowed just four hits without a walk while fanning six over seven scoreless innings to help the Dodgers split a two-game set against the Padres with an 8-1 victory on Thursday.

It's no longer just a matter of what teams will spend to restock their systems with high school and college players.

The first place Dodgers once again take on the third place Diamondbacks .Since the last time these two teams faced off, the Dodgers took 4 of 5 from the Padres and Cardinals , and the Diamondbacks dropped 3 of 5 from the Rockies and Royals .

Kerry Wood, who electrified baseball with a 20-strikeout game as a rookie in 1998 and then became a reliever after his career was slowed by numerous injuries, is expected to retire after pitching one more game for the Chicago Cubs.

Brandon Beachy threw his first career complete game, a five-hit shut-out, to lead the Atlanta Braves to a 7-0 win over the Miami Marlins.

Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas was nestled on a corner bench in front of the stakes barn at Pimlico Race Course, thinking back to a time when he was nothing more than a young man trying to make a living in the horse... Marc Leishman is still looking for his first victory on the PGA Tour, three years after being the top rookie.

The Dodgers , who have the best record in the majors, are 1-2 since Matt Kemp went on the disabled list with a strained left hamstring.

Aaron Harang allowed just four hits without a walk while fanning six over seven scoreless innings to help the Dodgers split a two-game set against the Padres with an 8-1 victory on Thursday.

Well, we all know that Don Mattingly doesn't have a lot of wiggle room with his starting lineup these days.

In his last two starts, Yankees pitcher Phil Hughes has a 2-0 record, 11/2 K-BB ratio, 2.51 ERA and 0.98 WHIP.

In a 162-game season, injuries are bound to cause teams to alter lineups, but the Dodgers have been bitten particularly hard by the injury bug recently, with Matt Kemp, Juan Uribe, Juan Rivera and Jerry Hairston all sidelined.

After both the Philadelphia Phillies and Cincinnati Reds took well-publicized passes at Roy Oswalt in the offseason, Oswalt, still intent on pitching in 2012, remains the best free-agent pitching commodity.

The Los Angeles Dodgers bring the National League's best record - and a three-game winning streak - to Coors Field tonight when they open a three-game series with the host Colorado Rockies.

During Spring Training, it appeared that Padres Starting Pitcher Tim Stauffer would assume the #1 spot at the top of San Diego's rotation.A And honestly, why shouldn't he have?A He was the Opening Day starter in 2011, he set career highs in Wins, Starts, Innings Pitched, and Strikeouts and was arguably San Diego's most consistent starting pitcher ... (more)